Like some clubs in France, AS Saint-Etienne is also on sale. It remains to be seen whether the Greens will find takers.
After a complicated season, during which Sainté fought more for his maintenance than for European places, the Saint-Etienne management wants to pass the torch. In recent months, Bernard Caïazzo has increased his number of business trips to try to find buyers abroad. For his part, Roland Romeyer has confirmed his desire to take a well-deserved retirement in 2021. In other words, ASSE is on sale. If several projects have been discussed in recent weeks, whether with locals or foreigners, it is now dead calm. Which almost reassures Denis Balbir.
“The only miracle solution for a club is to bet on stability”
“It has been a few weeks since the information surrounding a sale of ASSE has been more discreet. It’s hard to know where we really are, whether or not a boost will be given in the coming weeks. The only certainty we have is that Roland Romeyer really wants to take a step back. Enough to speed up a sale? Hard to say… Today’s club sales records are complicated. Whether at the level of TV rights and the Mercato, things are uncertain everywhere. We talked about an Asian fund, L’Equipe mentioned an interest from Gérard Lopez, an interest which was rejected by the Romeyer – Caïazzo tandem… For me, it is rather reassuring to see that the Saint-Etienne management is suspicious of this. to all these projects and investment funds. Many clubs have passed into the hands of supposedly competent and wealthy people. It was discovered after the fact that they were neither one nor the other, or at best fortunate but not competent. So yes, Saint-Etienne will probably not go into the hands of a faithless investment fund, but I am not convinced by a Socios project either. A project which, in my opinion, is a little idealized in current football. Personally, I don’t mind being talked to me about ‘collective’ but the more people we add to a takeover project, the more chance we have of arriving at an illegible governance with divergent projects and sporting choices that are not always clear. . There is no miracle solution. The only miracle solution for a club is to bet on stability ”, detailed the consultant of Goal, for whom the Forez club must remain as it is now, especially with the upcoming promotion of Jean-François Soucasse.